Name
Arthur James Gray
1885
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/03/1917
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
17541
Coldstream Guards
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
0.VIII.0.5
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Tewin memorials
Pre War
Arthur James Gray was born in 1885 in Tewin to Arthur and Augusta Gray and baptised on 3 May 1885 in Bramfield, Herts. He was one of six children but also four half siblings from his father's second marriage.
On the 1891 Census he was living with his family at Queen Hoo Hall Farm, Nancy Bury, Tewin where his father was the Farmer. His mother died in November 1892 (probably following the birth of Arthur's sister Kate) and his father married again on 5 March 1894 at St Peter's Church, Tewin to Emily Wearhand. They had another four children.
By 1901 Arthur had moved away from the family home, but his father, stepmother and siblings were still living in Tewin, at Queen Hoo Hall Farm, however his father died on 28 October 1904. There is a James Gray boarding at The Plough Inn, South Mimms who was born in Tewin and was working as a farm labourer which may be Arthur James Gray.
Unable to find on the 1911 Census.
Wartime Service
Arthur enlisted at Hendon, Middx in December 1915 and served with the 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards in France and Flanders.
He died on 22 March 1917, from wounds received in action and is buried at St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France.
Additional Information
Both his parents having died, his sister Augusta received a war gratuity of £5 10s and pay owing of £8 15s 3d.
Brother to Daniel Charles Gray and halfbrother to William Gray, both of whom died in 1915.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
